10 Reasons why We Must Stay Away from BIG Cities in India

India is country which is on a growth path for last two
decades. As a result, rapid urbanization has resulted in creation of many BIG
or MEGA cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad,
Ahmedabad, Pune etc.

With rapid growth many problems were created and started
dominating overall health of those BIG cities. For an aspiring Indian from Tier
2 cities, small towns or villages it is a high time that they should seriously
think of staying away from these BIG but Messy cities.

Following are few reasons

1.Huge Population:

BIG cities are facing severe problem of
“Huge Population” to manage. Most of these Mega cities are stretched by
population of more than 10 million to 40 million. As a result, resource
management has become daunting task for governments, administration and general
public. Even, basic resources such as Food, Air, Electricity and Water are
scarce.

If people start thinking seriously to stay
away from these BIG cities then Load on these BIG cities would ease making them
livable. But more importantly, new efficient and smarter towns and urban
pockets would get developed.

2.High Cost of living

All BIG cities have lost “Economic
Viability”. Cost of all basic needs are high compared with rest of the country.
Moreover, there is huge mismatch between price of real estate and rental rates
making these BIG cities highly unattractive from personal as well as business
point of view.

If there is systematic effort to
shift non-core activities from these BIG cities in next 3-5 years then regional
imbalance would reduce and new areas would get developed.

3.Greater risk of Life

People living in BIG cities are always
having greater risk of life due to factors such as higher possibility of
accidents, deaths due to stampede at stations and public areas, risk of terror
attacks as mostly BIG cities are targeted, stress related deaths due to hectic
lifestyle. Moreover, these additional risk factors offers no additional incentives.

However, people living in smaller cities or
villages do not encountered these issues making their lives lesser risky. So if
you want to live safely then Quit BIG Cities!

4.Adulteration: Milk, Vegetables, Water, Food

Be ready to consume “adulterated”
food items such as milk, vegetables, water etc. if you live in BIG cities. For
example, in a city like Mumbai more than 40% milk is adulterated (sometimes
with harmful chemicals). Same applies with vegetables and other food articles.
If you continue to consume these food items over a long time then there is high
possibility that you may get affected with some serious health disorder.

5.Congestion

If you live in BIG cities then forget the
world “Spacious”. Higher population density, large number of vehicles, limited
road length and encroachments resulted in “Congested” life.

This congestion plays highly damaging role
in overall psychology of human being. Quit these over crowed BIG cities and
live the life to fullest by shifting to smaller towns

6.Unhealthy lifestyle and disease prone life

BIG cities are facing chronic
problem of unhealthy lifestyle due to factors such as high degree of pollution,
risk of spreading the diseases to bigger scale driven by high density of
population, lack of cleanliness on roads and public places due to overcrowding,
overloaded drainage system. Additionally, people are adopting unhealthy
lifestyle by consuming higher proportion of junk food, consuming alcohol driven
by frequent “Party Culture”, lack of time leading to unscheduled meals.

People living in BIG cities are
more prone to diseases related to Respiratory system due to lack of pure air
and various types of pollution.

All these problems can be easily
solved if BIG cities are not part of your life. It is high time to realize that
even saturation point has reached mark oversaturation in these BIG cities.

7.Extremely crowded Public Transport

BIG cities are facing acute problem of
overcrowded public transport system. Be it local train, be it bus transport or
be it any other mode of public transport; everything is overloaded and
overcrowded.As a result, it is
virtually impossible to have comfortable, secure and safe journey in public
transport system in Big Cities. Moreover, the problem is one cannot avoid this
undesirable public transport travel while living in these Big Cities.

Due to overcrowding, people who are
physically disabled, old age people, kids, women and weaker individuals
virtually stand no chance to enter public transport system. This situation can
easily be avoided by relocating to smaller cities with less density of
population.

8.“Time” wasted in Travelling

BIG Cities are spread across quite
larger distance increasing average “Travel” distance for daily commuter. In
most cases average traveling by working person living in these BIG cities is
50km to 60km for a day resulting into travel time of 60 min to 90 min at least.
This mean out of 24 hours in a day 6% time is wasted in daily commuting. This
is not just “wasted” time but due to “compulsive” nature of travel it is also
“stressful” time for a person. Just shift to smaller city and traveling time
goes down to 20 min to 30 min maximum on per day and that too comfortable
travel with less traffic.

9.Troubled Family Life

If you live in unhealthy, polluted, crowded
and stressful environment continuously then you are bound to get affected
adversely. Not only it affects your physical and psychological health but it
also creates imbalance in work and family life. This invariably damage family
life of an individual. Why to risk your overall wellbeing and happy family life
just for the sake craze to be part of BIG messy cities. Shift to smaller
cities, have a peaceful and happy family life.

10.Collapsed Public Infrastructure

BIG Cities are facing severe problem of
“overloading”. As a result, public infrastructure in these cities is either
already collapsed or it is about to collapsed. Issues like pure drinking water,
sanitation, gardens, sports grounds, roads, parking places and many more are at
alarming levels. Why to be a part of these haunted cities with no place to park
your vehicle, no place to sit and relax and no basic facilities. Quit these BIG
mess and live “Developed” life in smaller cities.